vagrant

paul turner said:

vagrant said:

Wow.  Just wow.  I had heard about the Reality Distortion Field, but I never really believed it until now.  Do you guys ever read the rest of the Internet, or do you just stay on this site and jerk each other off?



There's nothing in the iPhone that hadn't already been done before on some other phone.  The brilliant thing that Jobs did was line up all the parts manufacturers and make the phone that people had been asking for, rather than taking the safe route like the moron MBAs at mobile hardware companies.  I bought the first iPhone and I loved it.  Not because, "OMG I never imagined a phone could be like this!" but because, "Finally someone manufactured the phone we have all been asking for!"

Pot calling the kettle black : You need to check your own revisionist history making


"There nothing in the iPhone that hasn't ben done before on some other phone>"

If you means the actual components in side the phone you may be right but come on , you know perfectly well that when the iPhone came out there was a chorus so loud saying it was:

1) Over priced
2) couldn't exist without a hardware keyboard
3) was a toy for mac fanboys

etc etc.

No other phone before it was able to:
1) do smooth scrolling
2) non sequential voicemail
3) a real desktop quality browser, with real pinch to zoom

to name a few 

All the phones on the market completely failed at most of these and were unable to match it in performance and Battery life.

So please stop it with your obvious lies. Do you actually remember the default phones back then? Feature phones with tiny screen with that ridiculous outmoded Symbian OS.

So, Apple invented smooth scrolling, non-sequential voicemail, pinch to zoom, and desktop quality browsers?  Or they added "on a phone"?

I give Apple full credit for putting, in one package, all the things people had been begging for.  The smooth scrolling comes from Apple's careful control of the hardware and software, which I like.  The non-sequential was not invented, but was rather part of the exclusive deal they made with ATT.  Apple implemented those things, and did an awesome job at it, well worth the extra money, but they did not invent those things.  Are you saying that Android copied the IOS implementation?

Apple added "on a phone", and made some deals with AT&T and parts suppliers.  Their implementation is excellent, but no one copied their implementation.  "on a phone" was the part that was copied.  And Apple has full bragging rights, and $200B in the bank to show for it.